Are you a hippie and in what ways are you a hippie?
I grew up in Canada and I'm pretty liberal minded, but I always wonder what it would've been like to grow up in the states in the 60's living a hippie lifestyle. Are you a hippie and what makes a person a hippie in your opinion?
The parent in me can't give that a like, but I appreciate that you are a legit hippie. : )
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at August 29, 2017 8:16 PM MDT
LoL! I guess when I look at old pictures of my parents from way before I was born they were kinda hippie too. My dad was a cowboy with a kinda John Travolta in grease hairdo, sideburns and all and my mom had the bell bottom pants and long straight hair. Hmm... Maybe I should go ask her about hippies?
Back then it was just a term for someone who followed the new trend, and dressed "hip". But now the word has a whole lot more attached to it. Today, the "hip" people are hipsters.
1966 - 67: Hip-pie 2016 - 17: Hip-ster
I am neither, but I do like to grow out my beard. :)
A hippie (or hippy) is a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that started in the United States and the United Kingdom during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into New York City's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The term hippie was first popularized in San Francisco by Herb Caen, who was a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle.
The origins of the terms hip and hep are uncertain. By the 1940s, both had become part of African American jive slang and meant "sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date".[1][2][3] The Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies inherited the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation. Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic music, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as marijuana, LSD, peyote and psilocybin mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness.
In 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast. Hippies in Mexico, known as jipitecas, formed La Onda and gathered at Avándaro, while in New Zealand, nomadic housetruckers practiced alternative lifestyles and promoted sustainable energy at Nambassa. In the United Kingdom in 1970, many gathered at the gigantic Isle of Wight Festival with a crowd of around 400,000 people.[4] In later years, mobile "peace convoys" of New Age travelers made summer pilgrimages to free music festivals at Stonehenge and elsewhere. In Australia, hippies gathered at Nimbin for the 1973 Aquarius Festival and the annual Cannabis Law Reform Rally or MardiGrass. "Piedra Roja Festival", a major hippie event in Chile, was held in 1970.[5] Hippie and psychedelic culture even managed to influence 60s and early 70s young culture in Iron Curtain countries in Eastern Europe (see Mánička)[6].
Hippie fashion and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, many aspects of hippie culture have been assimilated by mainstream society. The religious and cultural diversity espoused by the hippies has gained widespread acceptance, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual concepts have reached a larger audience.
Kinda, I'm a tree hugger. Not into the whole counterculture thing, but the only time I've ever been arrested it was for protesting against logging in the Eden-Monaro forest. The long-footed potoroo is extinct in the wild now, its last habitat was clear-felled.
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